Simple Looping Through a Publish or Edit Page for fields

I hate asking for straight up help like this, but I’m stumped. Can someone enlighten me so I can finish a certain extension: If I wanted to loop through a Publish page that might have 3 textareas that have a “Smileys” and a “Glossary ” link underneath, and I wanted to remove said links, (the entire code of that section looking like the following, although the ID’s can change!)

<span class='lightLinks'> <a href="[removed]void(0);"  false;">
<b>Check Spelling</b></a>    |     
<a href="[removed]void(0);" onclick="showhide_glossary('4');return false;">
<b>Glossary</b></a>    |     
<a href="[removed]void(0);" onclick="showhide_smileys('4');return false;">
<b>Smileys</b></a>    |    </span>

Dangit those links should have classes or something! How might I go about searching for each section of links on that page an return the following (again: someone wants to remove the “Glossary” and “Smileys” links):

<span class='lightLinks'> <a href="[removed]void(0);"  false;">
<b>Check Spelling</b></a>    |    </span>

That’s all I need to do. I’m working on my “Hide Smileys” extension, but AJP had to go and get all complicated and ask if it was possible to make Spelling, Glossary, and Smileys independent selections. Might be a little overkill, but would be fun to accomplish. The extension currently hides the Smileys link only. Shoulod I put in a Feature request to give these links classes? Everything in the CP should be classed or ID’ed where possible!